Logic, mathematics, ontology. Alfred North Whitehead's early work

in Logique et Analyse (2011), 54(213),

Looking for new mathematical concepts for the material world

in Logique et Analyse (2011), 54(213), 211-224

Read in December 1905 at the Royal Society of London, Alfred North Whitehead’s memoir “On mathematical concepts of the material world” is not only, according to Whitehead’s own retrospective assessment ... [more ▼]

Read in December 1905 at the Royal Society of London, Alfred North Whitehead’s memoir “On mathematical concepts of the material world” is not only, according to Whitehead’s own retrospective assessment, “the most original thing that he had done”; it also provides very interesting clues to understand Whitehead’s contemporary collaboration with Bertrand Russell, as well as his later philosophical – epistemological and metaphysical – work. [less ▲]